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Charles Maynard Chronicles the Fondren Tour 2000 to Ireland and Scotland A Letter to the Friends Fondren Library Founded under the charter of Dear Friends of Fondren Library: the university dated May 18, 1891, the library was established in 1913. Its present building was dedicated Another very exciting year is well underway for the Friends! November 4, 1949, and rededi- On behalf of the Board of Directors, I would like to welcome cated in 1969 after a substantial ad- our new board members: Teddy Adams, Georganna Barnes, dition, both made possible by gifts of Ella F. Fondren, her children, John Ribble, Cathryn Rodd Selman,J.D. Sitton, Pam Smith, and the Fondren Foundation and and John Wolf. We are pleased to attract such energetic, hard- Trust as a tribute to Walter William working, devoted individuals to our board year after year. Fondren. The library celebrated its half-millionth I would also like to introduce this year's officers. Robins volume in 1965 and its one-millionth volume on April Brice will serve as vice president for membership, Elizabeth 22, 1979. Kidd as vice president for publications, Frances Heyne as the gala chair, Pamela Giraud as secretary, and Kyle Frazier will again be our treasurer. We are fortunate to have such an im- The Friends pressive group serving the Friends. The Friends of Fondren Li- Our September event was the annual Distinguished Guest brary was founded in 1950 as an as- sociation of library supporters in- Lecture featuring Dr. Antonio R. Damasio. Dr. Damasio was en- terested in increasing and making thusiastically received by the students, faculty, and friends of better known the resources of Fon- Rice University. In fact, many believe this may have been our dren Library at Rice University. largest audience yet! Special thanks to Texas Anderson who The Friends, through members' contributions and sponsorship of chaired this truly wonderful event. a program of memorials and honor In October, Karen Rogers chaired the first-ever Friends of gifts, secure gifts and bequests, and Fondren Book Drive. Thousands of books were collected at Star provide funds for the purchase of Motor Cars in anticipation of the 2001 Book Sale. Thanks to rare books, manuscripts, and other materials that are needed to sup- Karen, Lee Seureau, and all of the volunteers who worked hard port teaching and research at the to make this drive a real success. university. It was good to see you at the annual Homecoming Brunch in November. We were so pleased to honor Dr. David L. Minter this year for his commitment to the Friends and to Fondren Li- The Flyleaf

brary. You will have the opportunity to read all about this excit- Founded October, 1950, The Flyleaf'is published by the Friends ing afternoon in the next issue of The Flyleaf. of Fondren Library, MS - 245, Rice As many of you know, plans are already underway for our University, RO. Box 1892, Hous- next Friends of Fondren Gala. I am happy to announce that we ton, Texas 77251-1892. TheFlykaf will be honoring the Fondren family and The Fondren Founda- is a record of the activities of the Friends, the Fondren Library, and tion who have contributed so significantly to Rice University's the generosity of the library's sup- Fondren Library. Please mark Friday, April 6, 2001, on your cal- porters. The Flyleaf is published endar. I hope you will join us. three times in each academic cal- endar year and is also available Sincerely, online at the Friends of Fondren web site at http://ruf.riee.edu/~fofl/. ctaisf

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Contents The Flyleaf £^J» Fondren Tour of Ireland and Scotland Page 4 Editors: Elizabeth W. Kidd, Lecture 17 Vice President, Publications Antonio Damasio Page Mary Bixby Book Drive Page 18 Mary PatJulian

Treasures in the Attic Page 1 Photographs: Mary Bixby JeffFitlow Board Profiles Page 21 Mary PatJulian Charles Maynard Bookmark Page 23

Layout: Friends of Fondren Membership Page 25 University Publications Gifts to Fondren Library Page 26

Looking Ahead Page 28

Board of Directors 2000-2001

Officers

Lucas T. Elliot, President Edward B. "Teddy" Adams, Jr. David L. Minter, Ph.D. Robins Brice, Vice President, Membership Georganna Allen Barnes Robert L. Patten, Ph.D. Elizabeth W. Kidd, Vice President, Publications Alan Harris Bath John C. Ribble, M.D. Texas Anderson John W. Brice Cathryn Rodd Selman Frances Heyne David S. Elder Lee Chatham Seureau

Karen Hess Rogers Diana P. Hobby Michelle M. Shedd Vice Presidents, Special Events Mrs. Thomas W. Houghton J.D. Sitton, III

Mrs. Pamela S. Giraud, Secretary Charles D. Maynard, Jr. Pamela Riley Smith

Kyle Allen Frazier, Treasurer Mary Catherine Miller John E. Wolf, Jr., M.D. Katherine Fiebleman Miner Bettv Bonnt Seale Wood

Ex Officio

Eugene H. Levy, Ph.D., Provost Charles Henry, Ph.D., Vice President and ChiefInformation Officer John B. Boles, Ph.D., Chairman, University Committee on the Library Mary D. Bixby, Executive Director Mary Pat Julian, Associate Director RICE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY

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by Charles D. Maynard,Jr.

was brisk at midday as our of the lawyers. And then there tonic for lingering jetlag and Itcoach rolled onto the Shan- was Lady Jane whose colossal the somnolent, if pleasant, ef- non Dolphin at the Killimer erudition and awesome elocu- fect of a morning coach tour Ferry terminal. The wide ex- tion did little to conceal warmth through the Burren which had panse of the Shannon afforded us a glimpse estuary lay between us of Cliffs of Moher and and Glin Castle, the several hours to absorb first of many stops on large doses of the wis- our bibliographic itin- dom ofJinny. She had erary. Most of us had delivered a first rate arrived in Ireland the lecture on Anglo-Irish previous day, much of history, laced with per- which was whiled away sonal anecdotes and in the luxurious sur- perfectly illustrated by roundings of Adare the crumbling rock Manor, the first of our cottages strewn across lodgings. Introduc- the face of the barren, tions had been made surprisingly once where necessary and populous Burren. An acquaintances re- The Burren English woman who newed that evening had spent much time over a sumptuous meal carefully and depth of sentiment that in Ireland, Jinny evinced a re- planned by our guide, Lady would turn what might simply spect and sympathy for the Irish Jane Howard, and beautifully have been a pleasant journey and their tragic history that con- executed by the warm and un- into a joyful pilgrimage. Word vincingly transcended pity. failingly polite Adare Manor had been from those who made Ireland is a place of excep- staff. As with most journeys, it is the first tour with Jinny that we tional beauty, but luxuriant, not our traveling companions, as were to be guided by a remark- dramatic. It rarely takes your

much as our destinations that breath away. Rather, it envelopes make them memorable. A won- Ireland is a place of you in a sense of timeless well-be- derfully eclectic group dined ing. The rain is gentle; the wind together for the first time that exceptional beauty, soft; the temperature moderate; evening. A librarian, appropri- the light glowing. Its aspect be-

ately; a physician and educator; but luxuriant, nign. Therefore, it takes a con- an internet entrepreneur; a vet- scious effort to grasp the harsh eran of international oil and gas not dramatic. reality of life in a seemingly pleas- exploration and development; ant landscape, even in a place as an editor and philanthropist; It rarely takes your stony and unyielding as the and, alas, a passel of lawyers, Burren, more picturesque than breath variously active and retired, away. stark. Tourists are told mat the thoroughly in need, and pre- gentians and orchids thriving in sumably in pursuit, of rehabili- able woman. They had not ex- the fissures of its rocks support a tation. Most importantly, a con- aggerated. local perfumery, a 20di century tingent of uncommonly lovely Halfway across the estuary nicety that conceals 19th century ladies, their luster undimin- dolphins crossed our bow, grin- reality. UnderJinny's gentle tute- ished by the fact that several ning in porpoise propitiousness. lage, eschewing nostalgia, we were traveling in the company The cool salt air was a perfect were able to \isualize the difficul-

M The Flvleaf 4 ties that faced those who had but interesting library. Most of once lived there in great num- the collection was of local, not bers, victims of famine and, as literary, import, such as a 19th elsewhere in the U.K., clearances. century roster of the local royal As we approached the south yacht club that listed the then shore, we passed an enormous occupant of the British throne power station, its stacks rising and an earlier Knight as the pre- into the mist, a reminder of how eminent members. We were much has changed in Ireland. joined by Madam Fitzgerald Within minutes and within sight who would lead us outdoors. of the stacks, we arrived at Glin The garden encompassed Castle, facing north across the greensward, flowered slopes and Shannon about 30 miles west of woodland paths in addition to a Limerick. We were greeted by traditional walled garden, over- Desmond Fitzgerald, the 29th flowing with vegetables, herbs Knight of Glin in a succession and cutting flowers, all detailed dating from the late 13th cen- in Madam Fitzgerald's book tury. His wife, Olda, who had re- which many of us bought and cently published a gorgeously she graciously inscribed. For fu- illustrated book on gardens of ture reference, the house is Ireland, was recovering from re- Lew and Marsha Eatherton open to visitors and offers over- cent surgery and joined us only at Glin Castle night accommodations. We de- later to escort us on a walk would be the thirtieth Knight parted, savoring our perfect in- through her garden. The Knight when Desmond let it be known troduction to a world with time recounted the history of the fam- that he has no son. He also told horizons and preoccupations so ily, which, as he stated, "has man- of days, only several generations different than ours as our mas- aged to survive despite having past, when the family barely sur- sive coach again negotiated the always been on the wrong side." vived on income from its salmon comparatively diminutive stone

To illustrate his point, he offered fishery on the Shannon where it gate that must once have the tale of an earlier Knight operated extensive weirs until seemed imposing to approach- who, under siege in the original the fishery was nationalized after ing townspeople. castle—the ruins of which still independence. We were in- On the road back to Adare, stand hard by the banks of the trigued by a quiet reference sassy from food, drink and con- Shannon about a mile from the made by the Knight to his first viviality, Jinny began talking as present house, which dates from wife, Loulou de la Falaise, a we approached the riverside the 18th century—was advised former fashion model and bon town of Foynes. Now on a more that his eldest son was in the vivant of the Studio 54 era. personal note, she told us of her hands of his besiegers. He was We pro- offered the choice of surrender- ceeded to a ing or watching his adversaries multi-course demonstrate their artillery whilst lunch, featuring his son was pinioned on the end local scallops of the barrel. In a show of bra- notable in that vado, if not bravura, the Knight they included was said to have responded that their bright or- he was young and his wife fertile ange coral, and that other sons would fol- rarely seen on ^ low. Happily, his adversaries re- this side of the lented and the expendable son ocean. After din survived presumably to become ing we enjoyed an ancestor of the present coffee and pe- Ellm at Adare Man Knight. We wondered who rused a small Ma^ mhm

Winter 2000 5M childhood, sent to Canada with ing on the present whereabouts her mother and siblings during "Were now actually of Ms. de la Falaise. the war. Her mother deter- In the morning, we left the mined to return them all to fa- on the wrong turn- Adare Manor and its enormous ther and husband in England cypress stretching over the lan- and so took them by ship to ing, since we missed guid waters of the River Maigue, Portugal, a neutral state. They resolved that we would get seri- languished for weeks in Lisbon the right turning, ous about our libraries. Our desti- where her mother sold her jew- nation was , via Kilkenny, which will actually elry to sustain them until they where we would visit St. Canice's could procure passage to Ire- Library at the church of the same be a much better land on the famous Foynes Fly- name, founded in 1693 by ing Service, one of the first over- turning Bishop Thomas Otway and one ocean flying services which of the oldest lending libraries in operated float planes in and out Ireland. In short order, we were provided we don 't of the Shannon estuary. One blissfully "lost," marveling at the " fateful day, with fewer ticket skill of our driver, David, as he one lose it altogether. in hand than was necessary to negotiated the winding lanes of transport the entire contingent, south central Ireland forming a she elected to defer their travel maze between Limerick and one more day so all could go the University at Limerick, and Kilkenny, lanes shared with every- together. Those relinquished Cathy and Jerry Supple, presi- thing from cows to enormous tickets were snatched up by dent of Southwest Texas State concrete trucks like out-of-place other eager travelers who de- University, who happened to be Leviathans. At one point Jinny parted for Foynes but were traveling in Ireland at the time. remarked, 'We're now actually never to arrive. For on that day It was during this meal that on the wrong turning, since we the Flying Boat, carrying the ac- Jinny issued a poetic challenge, missed the right turning, which tor Leslie Howard among oth- recounted later in this article. will actually be a much better ers, was shot out of the sky by We travelers became better ac- turning provided we don't lose it the Germans acting on the mis- quainted, turning the conversa- altogether." We took what little taken rumor that Winston tion to various events of our comfort we needed passing the Churchill was aboard. The fol- first day together and speculat- recognizable Mountain of lowing day Jinny and her family Women, named for three Celtic flew safely to Ireland and even- heroines who must have become tually returned to England from famous while reclining. which, she quickly added, her No longer lost, we found father was soon dispatched to ourselves at Cashel, once the Washington D.C. for the dura- capital of Minister, one of four tion of the war while his wife old kingdoms of Ireland. The and children remained behind. Rock of Cashel is crowned with We were discovering that Jinny the ruins of a 13th century ca- lived close to history. thedral, at one time an Returning to the Manor, we archbishopric and later a Protes- might have wondered what tant bishopric. It survived a fire could match the experiences of in the late 15th Century, an act our first day, but were not to be of arson by an Earl of , disappointed. Dining that who justified his vandalism by evening in exquisite fashion, telling Henry VII that he again thanks to Jinny's plan- "thought that the bishop was in ning, we were joined by old at the time." The King was so friends of Diana Hobby, Patty pleased with this reply that he Kay Schill, Charles Maynard, Dean Punch, Humanities Librarian at Lynas, John Ribble at St. Canice's Library made die Earl a lord deputy and

The Flyleaf 6 vivid portrait of the Ireland that us visited the Bishop's real seat, has survived the many depreda- a fantastic blue delft toilet

tions it has been compelled to which is pictured, with apolo- endure. gies, in this article. It was not In Kilkenny, David miracu- the last remarkable plumbing lously found a parking space fixture we were to see. At sup- large enough to accommodate per that same evening, in a pri- our enormous coach and close vate dining room at the enough to allow us to walk com- Shelbourne Hotel overlooking fortably into the forecourt of St. St. Stephen's Green, we reveled

Canice 's. We were greeted by in the events and sights of the the librarian and Bishop's Vicar, day and afterwards flowed into the Very Reverend Norman the streets in pursuit of Irish Lynas, who explained that this music and merriment. once Catholic church was now During our sojourn in

Church of Ireland, a close Dublin we would visit three li- cousin of the Church of En- braries. The Archbishop gland which has survived inde- Marsh's library at Dublin Castle, pendence very well, thank you, the oldest public library in Ire- and yet occupies the grandest land, holds a beautifully con- Blue delft at the Cathedral of St. Canice and most ancient ecclesiastical served collection from which we edifices on the island. We vis- were shown a Blaue Atlas dating paid for a restoration of the ited the library, most of which is from 1662 and a 1750 Natural building. Cromwell had also rav- housed, somewhat precariously, History of Birds in two volumes aged the building in 1647. It be- in the unhealed original build- with watercolor paintings on came a ruin when the roof was ing, and the best of which is vellum and the English removed by a 19th Century held in the treasury of the ca- Physitian Enlarged (sic) printed bishop too idle to climb the hill thedral, adjacent to the sacristy. in London in 1669, "not a work from his palace to hold services Here we found what we had of botany but a 'home doctor,' there. His neglect was apparently come to see: informing the reader how to more profound than the earlier gather and recognize herbs as • a 1540 third edition of the catastrophes, ancient well as to use them. It ad- but an Great Bible with woodcuts by how chapel known as Cormac's Thomas Cromwell, vised, "beans eaten are extream chapel survives along with a very windy meat; but if after the • an early copy of Shakespeare's fine example of an 11th Century Dutch fashion, when they are Fourth Folio, round tower. We toured the Aal boyled you husk them, and Rock and lunched in its shadow • a first edition of the Leviathan then stew them (I cannot tell at the Cashel Palace Hotel, from dating from 1651, you how, for I never was a Cook the rear of direct in all life) they are garden which • the Second Prayer Book of my access to the Rock may be had 1552 from which the Bishop's wholesomer Food." Some of us a private path, wistfully of by presumably Vicar read to us the marriage thought Mexican the one the former bishop was ceremony. food, which we would forego loath to follow. The most re- for two weeks. Alas, all of us remained in markable thing about the Rock We next \isited Trinity College our then present married or un- of Cashel is how unsullied the Library where we were escorted by married states. Before our de- view from its height remains. At Dr. Bernard Meehan, Keeper of parture, several of the ladies its foot lies the typically compact Manuscripts, and enjoyed a pri- asked if they could freshen up village of Cashel. Otherwise, the vate viewing of selections from die and were escorted out of out- view is across open meadows, collection not available to die pub- presence by the Bishop's Vicar. dotted with farmsteads and graz- lic widi die librarian, Charles They returned wide-eyed and ing sheep, a view that extends to Benson. The collection was begun gleeful and, in due course, all of the horizon in every direction, a in 1601 and by 1610 contained

Winter 2000 7k£ 5,000 volumes. It possesses more were graciously conducted than 550 incunabula. The Copy- through the collection by its di- right Act of 1801 made Trinity a rector, Dr. Michael Ryan, who depository library which, like refreshed us with morning cof- other libraries in the United King- fee and tea and allowed us to dom, led to its rapid enlargement. examine closely special selec- It possesses and we viewed: tions from the collection. Later that same day, we • a first edition of Dante's Divine lunched at the 12th Century Comedy printed in Vienna, Castle, which stands on • of Plutuarch's a 1478 copy a rock at the confluence of the Lives printed in Venice on vel- Liffey and the Rye Rivers. Its lum with moveable type, name derives from the Danish • a copy of the Book of St. "lax hlaup" meaning salmon Albans printed in London on leap. Now owned and occupied paper in 1496, by debonair Sir Desmond Guinness, a member of the • the only extant copy of a play prominent brewing family and by an unknown author entitled an old friend ofJinny. He and An Interlude, only the fifth his wife, Penny, treated us to a drama to be printed, in 1522, The Chester Beatty Library seated luncheon accompanied • the 1551 Book of Common by fine wines that challenged Prayer, the first book printed rials, notably a collection con- our powers of concentration as in Ireland approximately 100 taining 250 manuscripts, among we listened to a post luncheon years after the invention of them the so-called Blue Qur'an, lecture on Irish bookbinding, a the printing press, illustrating executed in gold ink on blue surprisingly engrossing presen- how isolated Ireland was at vellum and dating from the tation by Sir Maurice Craig. He the time, 10th Century. We toured a per- emphasized that early books • an ABC and Catechism, the manent exhibit of Chinese, Is- were printed without bindings first book printed in Irish in lamic, European and Coptic to be provided later by the pur-

Ireland in 1571 in Dublin of books and manuscripts. It is chaser to suit his or her taste. which only four copies are hard to describe the effect of Red morocco with gilt emboss- known. viewing a Coptic Mr. Benson was openly un- manuscript on with ex- enthusiastic about listing papyrus cerpts Trinity's rare books on the from the Internet, avowing that he really Gospel of St. didn't want anyone to know John dating from the 3rd what they have. Said he, "If I were trusting, I'd have been in Century A.D., a mere 250 years the banking business. I am in the mistrusting business—I'm a after the time of librarian." Christ. The col- Our third library in Dublin lection also con- was the Chester Beatty Library, tains 2000 Per- sian assembled and donated to Ire- miniatures, beautiful land by an American business Japa- Dr. Charles Henry and Dr. Maurice Craig at Leixlip Castle nese scrolls and magnate who is the only private person ever to have been given a collection of books presented ing apparently suited the tastes to of collectors but styles of a state funeral in Ireland. The Marie Antoinette on the oc- most library contains an extraordi- casion of her marriage at age 14 embellishment varied consider- nary collection of Islamic mate- to the future Louis XVI. We ably in design and execution. As

The Flyleaf 8 with the bullet haircut, the procurement of a lodged in her complete set of male formal wear brain. Of the and attendance at a traditionally others, one be- all male supper at Sir Desmond's came a poultry Oxford college which led inexora- expert, an- bly to her being asked to "go other a comic down" from Oxford. She master-

novelist, yet fully concealed the hurt, if any, another who lamenting only that die greatest moved to difficulty had been sitting through America, an entire meal at table sur- joined the rounded by hoards of handsome Communist young male Oxfordians without Party and uttering a single word for fear of eventually discovery of her femininity. Judg- Sir Desmond Guinness and Lew Eatherton wrote the clas- ing from the pleasure widi which Dr. Craig advised and convinced sic, The American Way ofDeath, she spoke to us throughout the us, "the Irish had a gift for ob- and the last of whom married days of our traveling together, servance of scale." into the British aristocracy and pleasure shared equally by her lis-

Our subsequent tour of the eventually found herself chat- teners, it must have been a trying house would reveal that that is elaine of Chatsworth, one of task. But, through it all, die friend- not all the Irish are prone to ob- England's greatest country ship had endured. serve. In an upstairs bedroom, houses. Portraits of all six An added treat in Dublin we admired a handsome four graced the walls of the drawing was a private reception at the legged bathtub strategically room in which we sat listening. residence with the American placed before a window over- En route, Jinny had warned us Ambassador, the thoroughly de- looking the courtyard. Our at- of Sir Desmond's beguiling china lightful former governor of tention was drawn to a framed blue eyes, which certainly were Wyoming, Michael Sullivan, and tabloid photograph hanging and must have been. 1 She had al- his charming wife, Jane, at the nearby, depicting a handsome luded to tales of their own univer- ambassadorial residence in and stark naked Jerry Hall, the sity days but had steadfastly re- . Many of you consort of rock singer, Mick fused to tell us anything until after readers will know there is a spe- Jagger, standing in that very tub we had com- cial and enduring relationship during an earlier visit with our pleted our visit, hosts, presumably freshly so as not to em- washed, but with neither red barrass our morocco nor gilt to be ob- host. Needless served. Ah, the pleasures of to say, we were plumbing the cultural depths. eager for die Sir Desmond also intrigued truth when we us with stories of his mother, reluctantly de- one of the six Mitford sisters, all parted in die great beauties, two of whom late afternoon, were notable for their fascist rolling ponder- leanings, one of whom married ously across die Oswald Mosely, leader of the gravel court- British Union of Fascists and yard in our Ann Ribble, Man Ellen Wilson, Jane Sullivan, Dick Wilson was imprisoned during the war, coach as the di- and the other who traveled to minutive casde receded in the dis- between the Nuremberg to meet Hitler, shot tance, jinny dutifully kept her and the United States. The resi- herself when Britain declared promise and recounted a tale of a dence is one of only two in war on Germany and lived on petit scandale invoking a radical Phoenix Park, across the road

Winter 2000 9M from the residence of Our days in Dublin the President of the Re- were, we thought, incom- public, with a grand view parable, filled as they looking south over a were with the library visits deer meadow to the already described and in- Is K Mp*\ 'ft Wicklow Mountains on terspersed with fine din- r%< l "W I9,'' li the west of Dublin. Prior ing at the Shelbourne Ho- to our audience, several ill tel, where we bunked, of us become curious and evenings on the town about how a governor of which included tradi- Wyoming, "surely a Re- tional music and a perfor- publican," had been se- ' 1 mance of George Bernard lected to serve as Ambas- Shaw's "Mrs. Warren's sador during a Profession" at the Pea-

Democratic administra- Charles Maynard and Norman Reynolds with Ambassado cock Theater. We reluc- tion. Some quick Michael Sullivan tantly packed our bags, Internet research con- and left them outside of ducted by Norman Reynolds on such a welcoming country. Add- our doors from whence David his laptop computer revealed ing to the pleasure of the beau- would ritually stow them aboard that Ambassador Sullivan had in tiful surroundings of the resi- our coach, relieving us of any fact been elected Governor of dence, was a wonderful semblance of responsibility for Wyoming as a Democrat. When collection of western art loaned getting from point A to point B tactfully asked how he had man- to him by museums in the state other than planting ourselves in aged to be elected in what out- of Wyoming as well as selections our seats. Ahead of us lay a siders perceive as a staunchly he had made from the State De- drive north out of Dublin to Republican enclave, the Ambas- partment collection, including Belfast to pick up the ferry sador explained that Wyoming three Rembrandt Peale por- across the Irish Sea to Scotland. will elect a Democrat to an of- traits. Later, Jinny disclosed a Seating is one of those generally fice close enough to keep an familial connection with the unacknowledged subtleties that eye on him but would never residence. Her great-great can often have enormous effect send a Democrat so far away as uncle, Lord Frederick on our enjoyment of an occa- Washington. Perhaps equally Cavendish, the newly appointed sion. At our evening meals, surprising was his revelation Secretary to the Viceroy in Ire- Jinny routinely employed place that his legal career, which pre- land, who then ceded his political career, had resided in the not been as a plaintiff's lawyer home now occu- as several of us had surmised, pied by the Presi- but that he had specialized in dent of the Re- medical malpractice defense, public, was bringing a smile to the face of assassinated by an Dr. and Mrs. Ribble. He un- Irish fanatic at the abashedly attributed his deci- gate of what was sion to enter politics to a mid- to have to been life crisis and understandably his residence, now acknowledged complete satis- the Ambassador's faction with the results of his residence. The as- rashness, thrilled with the redis- sassin mistook covery of his Irish ancestry and him for the Vice- the experience of serving in roy. A n n a n djohn Ribble

1 In correspondence to Desmond 's mother, then in prison, her sister Nancy wrote, in 1 942, about a visit to the theater with, her oxim children and her nephew, Desmond: "Desmond's eyes lured Vic O from the stage. " Vic was a stage entertainer, married to Winston Churchill's daughter Sarah.

The Flyleaf If) there throughout, no doubt un- tion was Glasgow, Scotland's 19th able to break, even in their ma- century dynamo. Sprawled along turity, the irresistible allure of the banks of the Clyde, it sur- distance from authority, which prised with its grand Georgian doubtless afflicted them architecture and older city cen- throughout their school years ter. Dating from a 6th century vil-

and beyond. I will not identify lage which grew around a church those who held fast in the back built by St. Mungo (later immor- but suffice to say that Jinny's talized by one of T. S. Elliot's cats, narrative, to which we all lis- Mungo Jerry, as well as Glasgow's

tened nonetheless with at least great cathedral) , it is now home one ear, was overlayered with to one million people, all of riposte and ribaldry, none of whom seemed to be home while which Jinny could hear way up we were there. Its name derives in the front. Many thanks to from the Gaelic "glas can" mean- those who participated in this ing the green place. Great surreptitious dialogue. It added Britain's western trading port for much to the journey. It is sugar, tobacco and cotton, it de- enough to say that there was veloped shipbuilding and heavy never enough said. The discus- industries along the Clyde estuary Diana Hobby and Lady Jane Howard at sions often continued off the in the 19th century which created the Shelboume Hotel bus and beyond, to cocktails, enormous wealth. One shipping cards to keep the salad tossed, dinner and may continue in tycoon, Sir William Burrell, col- but on the bus we were left to correspondence for years, who lected on an enormous scale and our own designs. David, of knows? very eclectically. His legacy was course, was obliged to sit be- And so we left the clean and bequeathed to the city in 1944 on hind the wheel, which was a comfortable confines of the Em- the condition that it be housed right hand drive, Jinny erald Isle with crouched on a stool to his left, its turf fires and microphone in one hand and its ubiquitous notes in the other, keeping up a pubs with constant narrative as we pro- charming but gressed along the road to Oz. often perplex- Those who sat in the front rows, ing sobriquets, expectedly the better behaved such as Waxies among the group, were none- Dargle, a name theless occasionally shushed for that kept us be- interrupting the narrative be- wildered and cause they were within hearing entertained for distance ofJinny. On the other the duration of hand, they immediately had an- our nip and swers to questions that her nar- the meaning of rative might prompt because of which became Marsha Eatherton, Beverly Baker, Ann Kibble, Trisli and John their proximity to her. The far- known only af- Brice in Dublin ther back in the bus one pro- ter our return gressed, or regressed, as the to America. We debarked upon out of reach of "atmospheric pol- case probably was, the rowdier the shores of one of the remain- lution and not less than 1 6 miles the tour became. Although ing united kingdoms and tra- from the Royal Exchange." It most of the contingent did versed the grandeur of the Scot- contains antiquities, tapestries, some time in the back of the tish lowlands, its broad valleys stained glass, 19th century paint- bus on one day or another, and rivers, distant mountains and ing, late Gothic and early Renais- there was a cadre that remained misty western isles. Our destina- sance art, and Chinese ceramics,

Winter 2000 11^ printed works ranging from sci- their house, allowing us to peek entific and zoological treatises even into their bedrooms and employing illustrations to scan- guest rooms, and described the dalous early works of fiction and rest of the estate in conversa- fable. The things we were per- tion at lunch. Seated at a long mitted to touch and hold were table in their immense dining fabulous, and the hospitality room, Houston at one end and and enthusiasm of their Keeper Cindy at the other, silhouetted boundless and infectious. In against a window overlooking welcoming us on our arrival in a an extensive lawn, we dined light downpour, he had re- wonderfully. At one point Cindy marked, "you can always tell paused, glanced down the table

what season it is by the tempera- and remarked: "Houston, dar- ture of the rain." ling, did you know that two En route into Glasgow on weeks ago three more large the afternoon of our arrival in stones fell from the roof of the Scotland, we had stopped for chapel," referring to the nearby lunch at Ardgowan, the home family chapel in obvious need of Sir Houston and Cindy Shaw- of repair, to which her husband Stewart, built between 1798 and replied, nonchalantly: "No, dar- The group climbs the hill to the University of Glasgow Library 1801. Beautifully located on a ling, I didn't," returning to his rise, it is home to a library cur- conversation. Later, observing and resides at the Burrell Collec- rently being catalogued by a invitations to a succession of up- tion, in a park setting outside the group of volunteers, the orga- coming royal birthday celebra- city center. Our morning at the nizer of whom disclosed that, tions lined up on their mantel, Collection was an unforgettable originally thought to hold 3,500 one could understand the non- experience. volumes, it had been found to chalance in the context of pri- In Glasgow some of us vis- hold 9,000 volumes, many un- ited the Hunterian Museum at bound, no doubt still awaiting Glasgow has the University of Glasgow and their red morocco and gilt em- enjoyed a private viewing of bossed bindings. Among these pioneered digitiza- books and incunabula in the were several volumes of University library with Dr. David Voltaire, published contempora- tion of its collection Weston, Keeper of Special Col- neously, at least one of which lections, which runs to over had never had its pages cut. and enthusiastically 300,000 items, ten percent of Collectors were not necessarily which were published before readers one must surmise, al- embraced the web to 1610. It includes 1,000 incun- though 9,000 volumes would be abula and, like the library at a daunting task even in a life- make its holdings Trinity, grew significantly upon time. The house also contained designation as a depository li- portraits by prolific Edinburgh available beyond brary in 1709. Contrary to the portraitist, Sir Henry Raeburn, attitude of the Trinity librarians, and a full length portrait of Na- the confines of the Glasgow has pioneered digitiza- poleon by La Fevre, reputedly tion of its collection and enthu- given Sir Houston's ancestor, University. siastically embraced the web to Michael Shaw-Stewart, by make its holdings available be- Napoleon's mother. In a nearby yond the confines of the Univer- glass case rested a military cap orities vastly different than our sity. We spent a memorable af- that had belonged to Napoleon. own. The genuine hospitality of ternoon cautiously examining Because a light rain limited our our gracious host and hostess and reading spectacular illumi- ability to tour the grounds, the dispelled all reservations any of nated manuscripts and early Shaw-Stewarts gave us the run of us might have had in leaving

The Flyleaf 12 the friendly Irish and embrac- comed and escorted by Andrew • a Bible dating from 1639 ing the stern Scots. McLean, a young archivist hired which had been owned by

From Glasgow we made an by the new Lord of Bute only a King Charles I who lost his excursion to one of the western year or so earlier to organize head to Cromwell and thus isles, the Isle of Bute, to visit and catalog the collection. had no need of the bible. Its Mount Stewart House, home of What unfolded in the hour we jeweled cover embroidered the Marquees of Bute. Traveling spent with him was perhaps the with gold and silver thread west along the south bank of most amazing experience of our was dazzling. It became the trip. Amongst family bible of the Windsor the family pos- family and contains the family sessions were: histories of the Bute and Windsor families, • an early char- ter dated No- • an important collection of vember 11, 1400, Jacobite manuscripts, issued by King • a first edition of Robert Burns' Robert III to his poems of which only 600 cop- brother, the ies were printed, "Black Stewart" • a second edition of Burns' po- John, an ances- etry, annotated in his hand for tor of the family, friends, only recently discov- • another char- ered in the collection, Lady Jane Howard, Cindy Shaw-Stewart, and Dr. Charles ter issued by • a manuscript of his poem The Henry at Ardgoivan King James IV in Lament in Burns' handwriting 1 498 with part of the Clyde, a ferry we boarded which differs slightly from the the original wax seal still at- from a spectacular 19th century later published version, tached, wrought iron and glass combi- • A manuscript of Lord Byron's nation railway and ferry termi- • a text entitled Discovery of 1816 poem Beholden Helen of nal that enabled last century Witchcraft by Reginald Scott the Heart, holiday-makers to walk covered published in London in 1584, from train to boat, and crossed • correspon- to the Wemyss Bay Rothsay on dence writ- isle of Bute. Mount Stewart ten in 1820 House, constructed beginning from the first only in the late 19th century ad- Marquess of jacent to an earlier, more mod- Hastings, est manor house, remains a grandfather grand work in progress. Unlike of the Third many baronial houses, which Marquess of have suffered the effects of age Bute, to Ma- and changing economic circum- jor General stances, it is in pristine condi- Hardwick tion, its library immaculate and from its collection in a wonderful Sumatra re- state of preservation. The Lord porting that of Bute, formerly prix a grand "all criminal race driver using the name are eaten alive. Notwithstand- Dumfries until the a 1775 letter, one of over 100 Johnny ing this, the people are hospi such letters from Charles death of his father, had been table and kind hearted", known to Jinny all his life but Stewart to his father. The son • a folio of Shakespeare com- was unfortunately away at the served in the British army with edies published in 1623, time of our visit. We were wel- Cornwallis at Yorktown during

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the American Revolu- ing from 1817. Several

tion and is buried in of us enjoyed perusing a Westminster Abbey. book containing a de- tailed record of estate But most spectacu- hunts spanning the bet- larly, we were shown, ter part of the 20th cen- and Mr. McLean read tury listing numbers of for us, a letter he had pheasant, duck, hare recently found contain and other quarry ing an eyewitness ac- and containing count of the execution bagged wonderful photographs, of Mary, Queen of many dating from the Scots, by Robert years prior to the Great Wingfield, at the be- War, in which all of the hest of high officials Norman and Sally Reynolds at One Devonshire Gardens in notable participants who wanted positive Glasgow. were identified. proof of her death. In Our 1693. It is in the Palladian style lunch with Mrs. Montgomery the letter she was described as and beautifully sited on the was as enjoyable as the setting, tall, with a corpulent face, shore of Loch Leven. From the and she gracefully disclosed her broad and flat, eyes of hazel and front door, one has a view com- recipe for the delicious baked hair of gray, double chinned. It pletely through the house, chicken when asked. detailed the mode of execution, which required more than one down a path traversing a formal Our accommodations in parterre through a gate at the Edinburgh were at the chic, new blow, and spoke of her little far end to the small castle on an Point Hotel, a flatiron shaped dog, who after her execution island in the lake where Mary building that formerly housed a ran from beneath her skirts to Queen of Scots was once impris- department store, lying close to her head only to be covered by oned and from which she es- Edinburgh University, the Hay her blood, all vestiges of which were washed, not only from the caped in 1568 to seek sanctuary Market and beneath the rampart in England. The house's small of Edinburgh Castle, of which dog, but from the place of ex- library contains the works of were afforded spectacular ecution and disposed of with we Swift, including the Author views. The decor differed mark- anything else that might be- Life of consisting of 19 volumes pub- edly from the manorial splendor come a relic or a rallying point lished in 1814. It also holds a of Adare, the comfortable Geor- to her supporters. Almost sym- large collection of portraiture, gian of the Shelbourne, and the pathetically, dark clouds and including of an earlier luxury of Devonshire Gar- distant showers obscured the one Lady One Gra- dens, sun on our return crossing of Montgomery, nee Helen which we had enjoyed in ham, by Sir Henry Raeburn dat- Glasgow. Stark post-modern, it Wemyss Bay. Conversation re- flaunts pink hallways and turned again and again to the sparsely furnished rooms with account of Queen Mary's death Mr. McLean readfor and the fascination of such walls painted in various primary colors. It attracts a decidedly proximity to history. us, a letter he had nontouristic crowd of young From Glasgow we traveled to business types and boasts a fine our final destination, recently found con- Edinburgh, stopping en route restaurant at which we were served an updated version of at Kinross House for a private taining an eyewit- Haggis as eggroll that was quite visit and lunch with Mrs. James delicious. travelers thor- (Lizzie) Montgomery. Construc- ness account of the We now tion of the house, designed and oughly acquainted and comfort- able with one another and so built for himself by architect Sir execution ofMary, cenUally located, there was William Bruce, who also de- Scots. . going during signed Holyrood House, was be- Queen of much coming and stay in Edinburgh, to gun in 1685 and completed in our and

M The Flyleaf 14 through the gate and to the • a first edition of Treasure Is-

banks of the river basking in it land, all. The sights. The sounds. The • and a Jacobite memoir written friends. present. The past. The in 1746 on a pack of playing future. The cards setting out an eyewitness Still daytime pilgrims, we en- account of the defeat of the joyed a private visit at the Na- armies of Bonnie Prince tional Library with Dr. Murray, Charles at Culloden. Director of Special Collections, At Balcarres, we were re- and an excursion to Balcarres, ceived by Lord Crawford, Robin the seat of the Earl of Crawford Lindsay, and his lovely wife, & Balcarres, in Anstruther on Ruth, who escorted us at length the north shore of the Firth of through her beautiful gardens, Forth in sight of the Isle of May, where we saw another astound- the most extensive we visited during the trip, as her grandson ing library. The National Li- and a friend kicked a soccer ball brary evolved from the National in the nearby formal parterre. Advocates Library, established Beyond lay the isle of May in by the bar in 1692 with 2480 the entrance to the Firth of items. David Hume was Keeper Forth and the open sea, a glori- Members of the group outside Kinross of the Library in the 1750s and ous setting. In his beautifully House looking out across Loch Leven was criticized for "buying appointed Lord French novels." The library now library, Crawford had set for us from shopping, sightseeing, holds 4.25 miles of manuscripts out wonderful items from his collec- antiquing and carousing, in- and possesses the libraries of Sir tion which, despite having been spired, perhaps, by the seem- Walter Scott and Thomas significantly reduced over the ingly nonstop activity in the Carlyle. It became the National centuries by sales necessitated streets surrounding the hotel Library of Scotland in 1925, by changing economics, [the through all hours of the night moving from Parliament Hall, family's collieries in the mid- which, at that latitude, never where it was housed in the late lands were nationalized after quite became night. Raucous 18th century, to its present loca- conversation could be heard at tion in 1950. any hour by the wakeful. And we Among the spent many an hour pub crawl- treasured ing on the Royal Mile, seeking items we out traditional Scottish music viewed were and times. found both good We • Mary, Queen in copious quantities. of Scots' last One afternoon we jour- letter, written to Abbottsford, neyed the home on the eve of of Sir Walter Scott with a library her execu- containing approximately 7,000 tion, volumes, assorted weaponry, ar- • a drawn mor, trophies, and memorabilia map by David such as locks of hair of Bonnie Prince Charley and Lord Livingston (we did not Lord and Lady Crawford at Balcarres Nelson. It lies on the river have to pre- fabled for its salmon, the sume), the Second World War] was ex- Tweed, beloved by Scott. On tensive. It demonstrated the se- that sunny, balmy afternoon we • the earliest dated Scottish riousness of his ancestor collec- all walked from the house, book from 1508, across the sheep meadow, tors that put the library

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lished by Havel as University Librarian, she re- in London in cited the first two lines of a lim- the 1830s. erick:

The oldest There was a vice provost from part of the Texas

house was built Wlio said, "It is books that " in 1580. The connects us. library was be- and invited us to supply the fi- gun in 1620 and became nal lines before the end of the trip. Considerable energy went "the great into the effort and versions bibliotheque were proffered daily, some of Scotland." nearly brilliant, some best for- Some books gotten. In the end, it was Mary Beverly and Walter Baker in the gardens ofBalcarres disappeared Ellen Wilson's offering that was during the their profound roundly embraced. together and depredations under Cromwell. love of literature and art. The present Lord Crawford and There was a vice provost from Among its holdings were: his father made a search for Texas

• a letter of St. Jerome, printed them some years ago and found WJio said, "It is books that in Rome by Reissinger in many at Worchester College at connects us.

1467, Oxford. We departed this, the Is it the feel of the page? last library on our itinerary, • the first printed book to have Is it the book as a stage"? been associated with Scotland, elated and temporarily sated, Or the incunabula that just conversing excitedly about the gets ? it belonged to Elenora, the us daughter of King James, "next trip." We are connected ... indel- Our last evening in Scot- • a first edition of the illustra- ibly. Consider this account a land, at a valedictory dinner at tions of the Book Job by Will- gauntlet tossed down to Jinny of Prestonfield House on the out- iam Blake published in 1825, and David, my fellow travelers skirts of Edinburgh, once home of which only 100 copies were and those who would join us on of Sir James Dick, the Lord Pro- printed, containing 21 en- another journey and many vost of Edinburgh, dating from graved plates, more for that matter. We hope 1687, we feted Jinny and David to have you with us and we • De Re Militari Balthurus and extracted blood oaths that thank you, Jinny. printed in 1472 in Verona, there would be another trip. one of the earliest Italian Early in our books with woodcuts, a copy travels, as we of which was included in were passing HP Leonardo di Vinci's book list, through the • 116 woodcuts by Frederico city of Limer- s1 1 '%'rffc, it *£\ $ | ick, correctly 1 km Frezzi, published in Florence 4-Ma in 1508, one of the two most gauging the aptitude of the BES &LjK profusely illustrated early ><; '''^^f® ^,x- %3 Florentine woodcut books, group, Jinny "w^' j had issued a • a book containing the earliest . v i challenge. known mention of the game apologies With 1 r * of golf, included a statute lim- to Chuck ! —J iting its practice, Henry, who ' • and all seven folios of the serves as Vice i works ofJames Audubon pub- Provost as well The Fondren Library tour group

The Flyleaf 16 A Geography of the Brain

By Texas Anderson

The Friends of Damasio's central Fondren Distin- premise, that our guished Guest Lec- emotions serve our turer September 1 7th bodies which in turn was the renowned become the stage on neurologist Antonio which our emotional

Damasio. Dr. Damasio and conscious life is and his colleagues (in- played out, is detailed cluding wife, Dr. in his recent book, The Hanna Damasio) at Feeling of What Hap- the Iowa College of pens: Body and Emotion Medicine are using in the Making of Con- brain-imaging tech- sciousness. nology to explore and Explaining the Hanna and Antonio Damasio analyze the anatomi- methodology used to cal basis, not only of our emotions, but of con- explore his research subjects inner worlds, sciousness itself. Damasio projected images of the brain show- Dr. Damasio's discussion to a large, enthu- ing how differently loci respond to anger, sad- siastic audience of medical professionals and ness, happiness and fear. His photographs of interested lay people carefully laid out the methods his team is employing to explore the dynamics of our brain's anatomical structure as it reacts to emotional stimuli.

Hanna Damasio, Texas Anderson, Karen Rogers, Arthur Rogers and Charles Maynard

the inner landscape of the brain in action (through Positron Emission Tomography) are as strikingly surreal as color images of outer Dr. Damasio signs his book for an audience member. space.

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In Damasio's lecture, Friends of Fondren Library as in his writing, his find- ings (based on his clinical Book Drive experiences with brain-in- jured subjects as well with by Karen Hess Rogers ordinary healthy subjects) reinforce his hypothesis On Saturday, October 28, very old post card from Los that our emotions are the Friends sponsored a Angeles. Books were divided closely tied geographically book drive in anticipation of into broad categories: hard- to the "life-regulating" ac- the 2001 book sale. Since the back and paperback, fiction tivities of the brain -main- books are currently stored at and non-fiction, with a special taining homeostasis and Star Motor Cars, donors were section devoted to finer keeping our anatomical asked to bring their books di- books. Other separate catego- systems on "go." rectly to the dealership. From ries included hobby and cook- He contends that an 9:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m. do- books, foreign language hierarchical arrangement nors drove through the brand books, and children's books. of the activities of the new Mercedes service depart- Books will continue to be col- brain leads to the creation ment to drop off their trea- lected at Star Motor Cars until of the phenomena we call sures. Volunteers enthusiasti- the 2001 book sale which is consciousness thus — cally tackled hundreds of bags scheduled for the fall of 2001. the "emotion"— the and boxes physical response to looking for a stimulus; the next pre- cious discov- then the awareness of ery. Among the emotion; these were a next the analysis of bound collec- our awareness of the tion of fine emotion; architectural and perhaps after that magazines poetry or philoso- from 1950 to John Kibble, Karen Rogers Connie Bath, Paw Smith, Lee phy. 1972, many Seureau and Alan Balk art books and The San Francisco a huge collec- Chronicle science writer tion of Ger- Carl Hall writes of man books Damasio's premise that: "The most advanced from the forms of human creativity Goethe Insti- are 'the glory of extended tute. A few consciousness' but it's non-book all. ..essentially physi- items sur- ological.." faced includ- ing Cezanne slides, audio Gilbert Gomez and Lee Seureau enjoy Dr. Andrew Barron 's tapes and a 1965 Super Seven which was on display with others from his collection.

M The Flyleaf 18 Treasures in the Attic - Part Two: The Confederate Imprints

By Alan Harris Bath

lished by Confederate cluded in the Confederate Im- presses. prints, as well as the Imprints In 1961 Rice history themselves were then offered professor Frank for sale as a package. Dr. Vandiver learned that Vandiver negotiated the sale of the Massachusetts His- the collection to Rice in early torical Society was con- 1962 for the sum of $45,000. sidering reducing the The question then became

size of its Civil War where to get the money? Rice holdings. This collec- President Kenneth S. Pitzer tion had been built by wrote Rice trustee and Chair- Dr. Samuel A. Greene, man of the Board of the First a Civil War veteran City National Bank of Houston, and librarian of the William A. Kirkland, describing Society from the mid- the project and expressing the

1860s to World War I, hope that Kirkland would help and by the

1930s it was considered one of the finest in the nation, LOYAL PUBLICATION SOCIETY, 8G3 BROJ9WAT. surpassed only by those of If the Woodson Research the Boston Athenaeum LETTER Center is Rice's attic, then its and the Henry E. Hun- vault can be likened to that tington Library. The GEN. A. .1. HAMILTON. OF TEXAS. sturdy, brass-cornered trunk in Society decided to re- one's own attic in which the tain a small reference Tllli PRESIDENT OF Till': UNITED STATES. family treasures are kept. In the library and all those Woodson, one of these "trea- records pertaining to sures" is a collection of Civil Massachusetts and New War papers known as The Con- England. It offered federate Imprints. The Confed- first refusal of the re- erate Imprints consist of official mainder to the Boston and unofficial documents of the Athenaeum to fill gaps

Confederate and State govern- in its extensive collec- ments, as well as pamphlets, tion. The bulk of the broadsides, sheet music, recruit- collection, books and ing posters, and sermons pub- pamphlets not in-

Winter 2000 191 in "finding the funds to acquire the request of Herbert the material." Bill Kirkland, a Hoover to organize life trustee of Princeton Univer- the European Child sity and Houston civic leader, Relief Bureau of the did more than "help." He en- American Relief Asso- dorsed a note for the amount ciation. He served as a necessary to make the purchase, member of the Rice then set about raising the funds Institute Board of within his own family. Trustees in the 1920s. The principal donor was Cora Peden, a native Mrs. Cora Root Peden, widow of of Galveston, who had Edward A. Peden. A Housto- lived in Houston since nian, Edward Peden had been a childhood, was active founder of the Peden Iron and in the cultural and Steel Company, Federal Food civic activities, and was Administrator for the State of a founder of the

Texas during World War I, who, Young Women's Chris- at the war's end went to Paris at tian Association (YWCA) in Houston. WEST & JOHNSTON, Rlclitiioafi Other family : r>oo:><:g. donors in-

" ' %•}>' THE - , cluded Mrs. Stella Peden Conner, bulk of the collection, are of daughter of Cora and such significance that they V ft i <^ ,.. & Edward Peden, and a make Rice one of the three »?p niece, Mrs. Mary Porter most important libraries for the Vandervoort. Edward study of the internal history of Kirkland personally con- the confederate government."

. U i tributed a substantial Significant additions were made sum to reach the to the collection in the 1970s, $45,000 goal. Honoring and while it can no longer be < his 1 9 years service to said that Rice is one of the "top CONTAINING IMBTIAL AND PATRIOTIC PIECES. the university, in 1977 three" in Imprint holdings, the

the Association of Rice Woodson collection is still of I Alumni awarded Mr. great value to students of the

Kirkland its Gold Medal. Confederate era. However, like

M ]! I L E , ALA In letters thanking those family heirlooms hidden the donors President in the trunk in the attic, the Pitzer commented that Confederate Imprints are some- "The Confederate Im- times forgotten until unpacked prints, which form the and put to use.

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Board Profiles

by Elizabeth W. Kidd

Kyle Allen Frazier In fact, Kyle has missed so few Rice alum, soon after her

games since the late 60's that it graduation from Rice in 1987 was remarkable when he missed and they have two children, the second half of the last SWC Anastasia, age 6, and Nicholas, game - only because his son was age 3. born during the first half! In addition to his many con-

In his spare time he is an at- tributions to the Friends of torney with Frazier and Frazier, Fondren Library, Lucas has husband to Analise, and father served Rice well in other capaci- to Kyle Brandt, age 4, and ties, most outstandingly as Madeleine Marie, age 2. Kyle and Chairman of the Lifelong Analise were married in St. Paul's Learning Committee of the As- Methodist Church in 1991 and sociation of Rice Alumni from both remain active there, with 1997 to 1999. He has also been Kyle currently serving on the Fi- very active with the Houston nance Committee as Treasurer. Symphony Society, serving pre- Kyle Frazier He is also very active in the Hous- viously as President of the Hous- Kyle Frazier has served on ton Livestock Show and Rodeo ton Symphony Partners, and as the Friends of Fondren Board and was Vice Chairman of the a member of the Executive since 1997, and is currently the Calf Scramble Committee from Committee of the Board of Di- Treasurer. His service to Rice, 1997 to 1999. In his true spare rectors of the Houston Sym- however, extends well beyond time (how is that possible?), he phony Society, and currently as the Friends. He has been a enjoys golf, tennis, jogging, hik- a member of the Board of Trust- member of the Owl Club since ing, woodworking, gardening, ees/Advisors of the Society. 1986 (the Silver Owls since and—of course—reading! 1993), a Community Associate of Sid Richardson College since Lucas T. Elliot 1987, and has served the Asso- ciation of Rice Alumni in many Lucas Elliot hails from New capacities, including as a Board Orleans and returned there to

Member (1996 - 1999), as Ex- Tulane Law School after gradu- ecutive Committee member ating from Rice in 1986. Fortu-

- (1996 1999) , and as Homecom- nately for Rice, and especially for ing Chair (2000). Perhaps his the Friends of Fondren for which greatest devotion is to Rice foot- he serves as President of the ball, a love he inherited from Board, he returned to Houston his father, who played for Rice soon thereafter tojoin Fullbright from 1949 to 1954, the greatest & Jaworski L.L.P. He married years of Rice football (so far). Vicky Nicandros, another active Lucas Elliot

Winter 2000 2lM Board Profiles continued

her love of travel, a love which Michelle graduated from Mary Catherine Farrington her husband Bill shares with her. Vanderbilt with a BA in Fine Miller Many of their trips are sponsored Arts, and after studying further by educational institutions, espe- in Florence, became a free- cially Bayou Bend, where she lance graphic artist in New served as a docent for eleven York. There she worked for a years. Her knowledge of antiques number of medical publishers made her a natural to be the and CBS. She returned to Chairman (1992) of the world - Houston, married Cliff Shedd renowned Theta Antique Show. and started a family, but con- Along the way Mary tinued her work as an artist and Catherine and Bill had four chil- teacher at CAM and at her dren: Bill, Michelle, Jim, and children's school, and served Kendall, and are now the proud on the Board of the Glassell grandparents of nine! At School. Fondren we feel fortunate that Michelle and Cliff and their in Mary Catherine Miller Mary Catherine finds time her sons Travis, Daniel, Jim, and busy schedule to devote to the R.J., who live two blocks from Friends of Fondren, for which the Rice campus, enjoy the lec- Mary Catherine Miller she most recently served as Co- tures, concerts, and sports ac- joined the Friends of Fondren chair of the Annual Meeting. As tivities that Rice offers. Thus Board in 1996, adding work for a fifth generation Texan growing the Friends to her many other up nearby on Sunset Boulevard civic endeavors. She is a long- and riding her bike on the Rice time member of St. John the * jffcTi^B campus, and as a member of ^r^ Divine Episcopal church, and ^m EBLS, which shejoined when she supports the work of the ' W ( took education courses at Rice, "O °^ church as well as St. John's ^vflh- |P she is very much at home here. School, on whose Board she id served for thirteen years. Addi- hill] f m Michelle Miller Shedd tionally she has been a support to Episcopal High School, the ^s Michelle Shedd, who joined BPWwSSlv University of Houston Founda- I • the Friends of Fondren Board in '^Sstfw&s'* tion, the Parish School, and the !!»"* Sw- &5fl served with Mary Catherine Neuhaus Education Center. 1998, &i t as Co-Chair of the Friends of Much of her work reflects her Fondren Annual Meeting. The interest in education, fostered Michelle Miller Shedd job was made easier by the fact when she took courses at Rice not only serve on the Michelle's children are repeat- after graduating from they Friends' board together, but also ing the experience of Mary Randolph Macon College, and are a mother-daughter team. As Catherine, who rode her bike at Houston Baptist University, might be expected, in many re- at Rice when she grew up in the where she received a MBA in spects their interests coincide. neighborhood, and Michelle is 1979. Michelle too has been long in- following Mary Catherine in Her interest in life-long volved in educational endeavors, "giving back" to Rice by serving education is also reflected in with an emphasis on the fine arts. on the Friends Board.

The Flyleaf 22 Bookmark

Bookmark is the book club of the tion, reproductive choices); be- tioned by particular cultural tra- Friends of Fondren Library, featur- ing able to use the senses, imagi- ditions. ing book reviews both in print and nation, reason, and thought; be- Given her basically liberal

online at our web site. You can par- ing able to plan one's life in framework, why does Nussbaum ticipate by sending your own reviews accordance with one's own moral choose to articulate and defend and comments to [email protected]. ideas; being able to love and to her own position specifically as a play; being able to shape one's "concept of feminism" rather Sex and SocialJustice political environment through than, say, as a distinctive version the rights of political participa- of liberalism or liberal human- by Martha C. Nussbaum, tion, association, and free ism? According to Nussbaum, in (New York: Oxford University speech; being able to shape one's spite of the promises of the Press, 1999). material environment through liberalism's commitment to hu- man rights, all Review by Carol E. QuiUen, over the world SEXAND women still dis- Department of History proportionately In Sex and Social Justice, lack the capabili- Martha Nussbaum articulates a SocialJustice ties that make fully "distinctive conception of femi- human function-

nism" that takes as its foundation ing possible: in no a set of "human capabilities" country is which she argues should be re- women's quality of spected globally, in all nations life equal to that

and by all cultures. This concep- of men; gender- tion of feminism combines, as based employ- she says, elements often thought ment and wage

to be in tension: it is "internation- discrimination is alist, humanist, liberal, con- widespread; cerned with the social shaping of women are less

preferences and desire, and, fi- likely than men to nally, concerned with sympa- be literate; they thetic understanding" (6). Martha C Nussbaum are grossly Nussbaum's book thus under- underrepre- stands feminism, a commitment sented in govern- to the political and social equal- the right of property ownership ment; in many nations, women ity of women, in the context of a and through equal opportunity are less likely than men to receive more encompassing theory of for meaningful employment, adequate nutrition and health global justice based on a univer- Practices that interfere with these care; in nations like the United sal commitment to nurturing in capabilities—female genital mu- States, where some of these dis- everyone the following capaci- tilation, unequal access to edu- parities between men and ties: life (normal life expect- cation, discrimination in employ- women are less marked, an

ancy) ; bodily health; bodily integ- ment, political repression, alarming number of women suf- rity (freedom of movement, perhaps violent pornography, to fer sexual violence. Such dispro- freedom from violent assault, op- name a few—should be opposed portionate suffering calls for an portunities for sexual satisfac- as unjust even if they are sane- analysis that aims to formulate a

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version of liberalism ethical questions, those which respects the dig- It insists that we in which, for example, nity and the equality of CDNFRDNT THE one person's flourishing women as human beings. comes at the expense of From this point of view, TRAGIC CONDITIONS OF another, Nussbaum's ap- feminism can be under- proach provides equally stood to emerge in the HUNGER, HOMELESSNESS, AND little guidance. Any gap between liberalism's theory ofjustice must rec- foundational principles DISEASE THAT MANY PERSONS ognize how material and and its practices. Within PERPETUALLY ENDURE discursive structures a global framework and capitalism, nation-states, from the perspective of colonial encounters es- EVEN AS IT MOVES US — the normative claims of tablish and then occlude Nussbaum's capabilities TO IMAGINE THE RICH LIVES OF hierarchical relations approach to justice, femi- among persons or nism refers to a critique WHICH HUMAN BEINGS groups of people, often of "customs and political without their consent or arrangements" (32) that ARE CAPABLE. cooperation, such that specifically constrain the capacity for flourish- women. ing of one grows as it is What are the implications of brackets the political question: denied to another. Seeing these

Nussbaum's argument? What how? Through what institutions, relationships is a central obliga- would it mean to structure social social practices, and methods of tion of moral theorizing, for policy so as to provide all, includ- redistribution can we work to al- emancipation and oppression can ing women, with the above-listed locate resources so as to amelio- emerge simultaneously. Some- capabilities? The list itself is an im- rate material deprivation world- times what oppresses others allows portant statement. It insists that we wide? On more controversial us to speak,

confront the tragic condi- i i In spite of these limi- tions of hunger, home- tations, however, Martha Nussbaum is Ernst Freund Professor of lessness, and disease that Nussbaum's book repre- many persons perpemally Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago sents an eloquent and endure even as it moves . . ^ . ^, . ,, „. . .^ important contribution , L r . with appointments in Classics, the Divinity , , , us to imagine the rich to contemporary debates lives of which human be- School, the Law School, and Philosophy. She about global justice and

ings are capable. How- . . about feminism. Further-

XT , , has written extensively on a wide ranee of ethi- , ever, Nussbaum s ap- ' ° more, her insistence on proach and her cal issues, from problems in ancient philoso- the ethical imperatives of argument do not, it the liberal humanist tra- h and literature to our contemporary debates seems to me, adequately P y didon a tradition that at speak to the crucial its " most about social justice and human rights. In addi- best not onl >' P ro issues facing modern so- claims but actually works cieties. On basic issues of tion to Sex and SocialJustice, her books include: to ensure the natural survival, issues about freedom and equal The Fragility of Goodness (1986) , The Therapy of which there should be moral dignity of all hu- Desire little controversy—ad- (1994) , Cultivating Humanity (1997) , and man beings, reminds us equate food, shelter, and , _. , all left to n T „ „ , ,„„„„, of the work be . . _ Women and Human Development (2000) ,health care, tor ex- done. ample — Nussbaum I

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Winter 2000 2"M Looking Ahead Mark your calendars now for upcoming Friends ofFondren Library events.

February 11, 2001 The annual Rice Authors Reception is scheduled for 3:00 p.m. on Sunday, February 11, 2001, in the Kyle Morrow Room, Fondren Library. This event will honor Rice faculty, staff, alumni, and Friends' members who have authored books published in 2000, edited journals published in 2000, composed major musical works or mounted one-person art shows in 2000.

If you are a 2000 author or if you know of someone who is, please contact the Friends' office by

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